Mining Incidents

Cherry Creek Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Knife River Corporation
KLAMATH FALLS, Klamath County, OR  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3503332

Cherry Creek Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
41
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,598
proposed penalties
$3,598
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
19
inspections on record
306
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 306 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cherry Creek Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
41 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-12-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q4 123 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 404 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 124 0 0 0.0
Show 54 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 55 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 441 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,136 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 2,209 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 720 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 812 1 0 1231.5
2009 Q3 2,223 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,436 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 830 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,996 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 920 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 2,371 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,279 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,021 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,394 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,806 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,997 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,403 5 0 2080.7
2006 Q1 1,803 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,155 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 3,370 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,532 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,262 5 0 2210.4
2004 Q4 3,376 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,305 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,457 4 0 1157.1
2004 Q1 506 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,968 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,631 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 3,056 9 1 2945.0
2003 Q1 504 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,831 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,544 2 2 786.2
2002 Q2 2,723 3 0 1101.7
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 2,592 5 2 1929.0
2001 Q3 2,414 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,388 7 1 2931.3
2001 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,240 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,470 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,800 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Cherry Creek Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.